NREL Establishes World Record for Solar Hydrogen Production

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8. It's, um, bullshit of the usual kind. Solar thermal plants on an industrial scale are...

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...grotesque failures.

This kind of efficiency hype announced as a "record" will do exactly what the entire failed expensive and useless solar industry always does, generate more complacency than energy.

The solar industry after 50 years of mindless and frankly destructive cheering can't even produce 1% of the world's primary energy.

Now you're going to make hydrogen from it, and you're screaming for joy at 16.2% efficiency?

In order to produce in the form of hydrogen the world's energy supply, which is 570 exajoules per year, the solar thermal industry would need to produce 3518 exajoules as primary energy.

The piece of garbage solar thermal plant trashing the Mohave desert right now, the Ivanpah tragedy covers 3,500 acres and doesn't produce as much energy as a small garbage incinerator.

It produced just 0.0639 exajoules of energy in three years, or 0.0213 exajoules per year.

It's in a desert.

In order to produce 3500 exajoules, we would need about 1.6 million similar plants, all of them in deserts, and all of them paradoxically near water to split. They would need to occupy 23 million km², which is very close to the entire surface area of North America.

How ridiculously stupid!

These reports, which amount to nothing more than big lies, are useless. They present failure as a victory.